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Texas Young Lawyers Association to Present Voting
Rights Documentary
and Voter Registration Drive to Moody High School
Seniors

(Corpus Christi) – In an ongoing quest to educate young
people
across Texas about their fundamental right to vote and the
history
of the suffrage movements that solidified that right, the
Texas
Young Lawyers Association (TYLA) is presenting "Vote
America! Honor
the Fight, Exercise Your Right" Video Presentation and Voter
Registration Drive:

Hosted by former "Rock the Vote" president Jehmu Greene,
and
produced by TYLA, "Vote America!" gives viewers an
opportunity to
witness heroic efforts of the past and encourages
understanding of
our necessary role in defending democracy today. The
documentary
chronicles the struggles incurred during the
African-American and
Women's Suffrage movements, the plight of language
minorities in
their quest to have an equal voice in democracy, and the
role that
young people played to secure our most precious right.

"Vote America!" is the second civil rights documentary
produced by
TYLA, the first being the Emmy-award winning "They Had a
Dream Too:
Young Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement."

All licensed Texas lawyers who are 36 years old or
younger or who
are in their first five years of licensure, regardless of
age, are
automatically members of TYLA. Commonly referred to as the
"public
service arm" of the State Bar of Texas, TYLA's main purposes
are to
facilitate the administration of justice, foster respect for
the
law, and advance the role of the legal profession in serving
the
public.